With the recent publicity over Flickr’s propensity to delete accounts without warning or recourse, a few people have asked about alternatives to Flickr. Let’s look at a few: SmugMug offers a great set of tools for photo hosting and sharing with a slick user interface. They offer three levels of (paid) membership with prices ranging [...]
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Flickr seems to be getting aggressive about deleting accounts. Last week I wrote about the fact that Thomas Hawk was banned from their forums for pointing out situations where Flickr’s staff had made nonreversible deletions of members’ accounts. Today I learned of another deletion, that of San Antonio realtor Matt Stigliano, aka @rerockstar. Unlike some [...]
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Easy Sharing Assignment
If you haven’t already done so, go leave a meaningful comment or three on some photos on a photo sharing site. Whether you prefer Flickr or SmugMug or Picasa or another site, go find some photography that evokes some emotion and leave a comment for the photographer.